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13 been through warning the folks to the burial; then the mother cries out, ‘O the villain! O the villain! that he did not send me word.’ So they both ran, and the mother, as soon as she entered the house, flies to the bed, crying, ‘O my bairns, my dear bairns,’ on which the sluts rose up in a consternation, to the great surprise of the beholders, and the great mortification of the girls, who thought shame to let their noses out of doors, and to the diversion of the whole town.

Leper and his master went to a gentleman’s house to work, where there was a saucy housekeeper, who had more ignorance and pride than good sense and manners; she domineered over her fellow servants in a tyrannical manner: Leper resolved to mortify her pride; so he finds an ant’s nest, and takes their white eggs, grinds them to a powder, and puts them into the dish her supper sowns was to be put in. After she had taken her supper, as she was covering the table, the immock powder